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ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2015

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Subject to adjustment as needed


Go directly to: [Tuesday - March 10] [Wednesday - March 11]

MONDAY – March 09, 2015
START TIME END TIME SESSION TYPE
08:45 am 09:00 am Opening Welcome
SESSION 1: Search and Design of Vaccine and Drugs
Chair: Ezekiel Adebiyi
09:00 am - 12:00 pm
09:00 am 10:00 am Keynote Presentation:
Michal Linial


Good Things Come in Small Packages – Replicators and Innovators
10:00 am 10:30 am Coffee Break
10:40 am 11:00 am Ruben Earl Cloete

Homology modeling of the M. tuberculosis potential drug target nicotinate-nucleotide adenylyltransferase (Rv2421c) and docking studies to identify novel inhibitors
11:00 am 11:20 am Gaston Kuzamunu Mazandu

Optimal searching for drug therapy against Ebola Virus Disease
11:20 am 11:40 am Emna S. Harigua

In silico screening and biochemical selection of small molecules targeting the Leishmania eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4A
11:40 am 12:00 pm Natasha Wood

The 3D structure and molecular dynamics of the HIV-1 g120 'glycan shield' from different subtypes
12:00 pm 02:00 pm Lunch and Poster Viewing
SESSION 2: Host/Pathogen Systems Biology
Chair: Geoffrey Attardo
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
14:20 14:40 Oussema Souiai

Can genomic context improve phage gene annotations?
14:40 15:00 Angela Uche Makolo

Computational Identification of Signaling Pathways in Protein Interaction Networks
15:00 15:20 Itunuoluwa Marian Isewon

In-silico Discovery of Transcriptional Regulators in Plasmodium falciparum.
15:20 15:40 Marion Olubunmi Adebiyi

Computational Analysis of Anopheles gambiae Metabolism to Facilitate Insecticidal Target Discovery
15:40 16:00 Jandouwe Villinger

Discovery of a new clade of Anopheles specific flaviviruses and the first Wesselsbron virus in Kenya by novel pan-arbovirus multiplex high resolution melting analysis
04:00 pm 04:30 pm Coffee Break
04:30 pm 05:30 pm Keynote Presentation:
Matthew Berrimann

The impact of genome sequencing on the study of parasites

TUESDAY – March 10, 2015
START TIME END TIME SESSION TYPE
08:45 am 09:00 am Opening Welcome
SESSION 3: Molecular Epidemiology and Evolution
Chair: Anne Fischer
09:00 am - 12:30 pm
09:00 am 10:00 am Keynote Presentation:
Tom Gilbert

Archaeomicrobiology in the genomic era
10:00 am 10:30 am Coffee Break
10:40 am 11:00 am Yvonne Amaya

Rapid and high throughput molecular identification of diverse mosquito species by High Resolution Melting analysis

11:00 11:20 Imogen Wright

NOAH: A novel guide tree ordering and progressive alignment heuristic
11:20 11:40 am
Fredrick Nindo

Re-assortment patterns among global Influenza A, B and C viruses circulating between 1927-2013
11:40 am 12:00 pm James Otieno

Evolutionary dynamics of group A respiratory syncytial virus through long-term surveillance at the Kenyan Coast: Insights into viral persistence
12:00 pm 02:00 pm Lunch and Poster Viewing
01:00 pm 02:00 pm ISCB and ASBCB Open Business Meeting
SESSION 4: Bioinformatics of Human Genetics
Chair: Julie Makani
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
14:00 14:20 Wojciech Makalowski

Nanopore Sequencing for Genotyping Pathogens of Tropical Diseases
14:20 14:40 Darlington Shingirirai Mapiye

Computational genomics approaches for Kidney disease in Africa
15:00 15:20 Matthew James Betts

Predicting the mechanistic impact of mutations and modifications on molecular interactions
15:20 15:40 Ben Hamda Cherif

A meta-analysis of genotype and phenotype data related to sickle cell disease to understand the biology of the disease
15:40 16:00 Howard Cash

Considerations in the Design and Management of DNA Databases for Human Identification
04:00 pm 04:30 pm Coffee Break
04:30 pm 05:30 pm Keynote Presentation:
Michèle Ramsay


African Human Genome Data: Enhancing biomedical research on the continent
05:45 PM 07:00 PM HAPPY HOUR TONIGHT!!! Drinks and Appetizers

WEDNESDAY – March 11, 2015
START TIME END TIME SESSION TYPE
08:45 am 09:00 am Opening Welcome
SESSION 5: The Glossina Genome
Chair: TBD
09:00 am - 10:00 am
09:00 am 09:20 am Geoffrey Attardo

The sequencing and annotation of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) genome, a ten year international effort.
09:20 am 09:40 am George Obiero

Reduced chemosensory receptors of tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans
09:40 am 10:00 am Rosaline Wanjiru Macharia

Comparative Analysis of Tsetse's Chemosensory Repertoire
10:00 am 10:30 am Coffee Break
SESSION 6: Functional and Structural Genomics
Chair: Nicola Mulder
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
11:00 11:20 am Caleb Kipkurui Kibet

Comparative analysis of transcription factor binding sites assessment approaches
11:20 am 11:40 am Kevin Premsingh Persand

Analysis of virulence genes conserved across M. tuberculosis strains
11:40 am 12:00 pm Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Supervised Classification of Viral Genomes based on Restriction Site Distribution
12:00 pm 02:00 pm Lunch and Poster Viewing
SESSION 7: Database and Resource Development
Chair:
Manuel Corpas
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
 14:00  14:20
Tatyana Goldberg
 
Prediction of protein sub-cellular localization using LocTree3
14:20 14:40 Gustavo Adolfo Salazar Orejuela

A web-based protein interaction network visualizer

14:40 15:00 Shakuntala Baichoo

Infect-DB – A genome data warehouse for infectious diseases

15:00 15:20 Philip A. Oyier

Efficient Mobile Data Collection and Storage Using Open Data Kit Collection Suite for Kenyan Indigenous Poultry Databank
15:20
15:40
Lynette Hirschman

Hybrid curation of gene-mutation relations combining automated extraction and crowdsourcing
04:00 pm 04:30 pm Coffee Break
04:30 pm 05:30 pm Keynote Presentation:
Roderic Guigo

Transcriptome variation across tissues and individuals
05:30 pm 05:45 pm Awards and Closing

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